Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
ISpeeial Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAzET

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10, 1887.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Call intro.
duced the following proposed Amendments
to TIE general deficiency bill:
"To enable the Secretary of War to have the
bridge on auueduct piers reconstructed in accord
ance with the plan recommended by the board q
engineers in their report dated January "a, 1851
snd approved by the chief OF engineers January
y. 1887, the sum of $50 900 additional is here
by appropriated
The object of this proposed appropriation
is to provide for draw 10 the free bridge
across the Potomac at Georgetown, and Is
intended solely for the benefit of a few peo'
pie who own river frontage just above the
bridge. OF course it can be of no general
benefit, as the river is naturally unnaviga'
bic above the aQueduct.
In the Senate to day Mr. Sherman, the
president pro tempore, laid before that
BODY the resolutions of citizens meeting
of Alexandria, inviting the members OF the
Senate to attend the celebration of Wash
iueton's birthday there next Tuesday. Inc
resolutions were supplemented by the hopes
of D. w. Zeisse, the secretary OF the meeG'
inp. that the invitation would be accepted.
Mr.. Edmunds said "The petition had bet
ter lie over until the committee on appro
nriations can be consulted as TO whether
we can attend"
The District of Columbia appropriation
bill was reported 10 the Senate this after.
noon by the appropriation committee OF
that body. Among the amendments to the
bill as passed By the House is ono appropri-
atinp $50 900 for an ice boat for the Potomac
River.
The Senate bill to refund the direct land
tax to those who paid it will probably DO
considered by the House Judiciary Com
mittee next Tuesday.
At the meeting of the Virginia democrat
ic association last night the resolution for
investigating the history and democracy OF
Mr.. Abrahams, deputy comptroller OF the
Treasury, was dismissed. Captain Jones
offered q resolution, which. was adopt
ed, condemning the appointment to office
of men who have never done the party any
service, and the crediting to Virginia ap-
pointees who do not live in that State
Representative Breckenridge, of Kentucky
will address the association next Friday
night.
It is now pretty we'll understood that the
House appropriations committee to wnicn
all the Senate bills for Qualifications, arma.
ments, navies, ETC., have been referred, Will
report none Of these bills favoreb!y. The
| military committee of the same body VIII
it is understood, report q ratification bill OF
their own, and try to bring the House to
vote on it.
An intelligent gentleman from Texas,
here TODAY, says that the witnesses for the
prosecution in the trial of the State OF Tex
as now in progress before committee OF
the Senate, are swearing to whatever they
choose, utterly regardless of the con.
dtion Of truth, and that such Will
be demonstrated as soon as the witnesses
for the defense shall be examined
The witnesses examined to-day couldn't
for the life Of them, tell how it was that
though republicans had held more offices in
Washington county before than now
and were not molested, and though many
republicans hold Office there now without
obstruction the opposition to republican
ofliceholders there last fall, after the cleo
ton, should have been so great as to have
subvered republican government.
Mr.. Pendleton is on his way here at the
invitation of the President. He says he is
not going back to Berlin and expects to be
members of tho Presidents Cabinet by
the 1st of April.
Among the Vrgniaus in the city to day
is Ex-Governor Cameron. He spent the
morning with Senstor Riddleberger at the
latters room in the Metropolitan Hotel.
The sound of the ship yard boom in Alexandria
can be heard every where in this city, aud mem
bers of Congress as well rs of every other class
people here arc talking about it and anticipating
a great revival of business in that city and con
| :oquent advantages TO this one.